Curious about Office 2008 for Macintosh? To see the Office 2008 upgrade schedule for faculty and staff Macs, click here.

Office 2007 workshops for students, staff, and faculty provide hands-on experience using the new Office 2007 "ribbon" toolbar to create and edit Word 2007, Excel 2007, and PowerPoint 2007 documents. Click here for full workshop description, available dates and times, and registration information.

New ITS blogs for Macintosh and Windows users: Visit the MacUser or WinBlog blog to read news and alerts about each operating system, add your own comments and questions, and sign up to receive updates automatically by email or RSS feed. We look forward to hearing from you!

If you work with any Smith website, you must now use secure FTP to transfer files between your computer and a Smith web server. Whether you use Dreamweaver, Contribute, or a non-secure FTP program, click here for instructions on switching to Secure FTP.

Office 2007 Users: If you plan to send a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file to someone who does not have Office 2007, click here for instructions on saving the file in a format your recipient can open.

Non-Office 2007 Users: If you are unable to open a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint file sent by an Office 2007 user, click here for instructions on converting the file to a format your computer can read.

Copyright Infringement Claims: For information about the new legal strategy adopted by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for pursuing copyright infringers, click here. For information about settling lawsuits, click here. To disable illegal peer-to-peer file-sharing software on your computer, click here.

Staff & Faculty: Since Internet Explorer 7 for Windows is incompatible with some Smith applications, please install a program that blocks the Windows updater from installing it on your computer. Log in to the Smith software page and click on the Blocker link at the top of the page. Click on Run, then Run again.

Microsoft has recently released Office Professional 2007 for Windows, including new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access. Unfortunately, Office 2007 is not backwards-compatible with the versions of Office currently used on campus. Click here for recommended solutions to version-compatibility problems.

RefWorks, online software that helps you collect, organize, and format references for research and writing, is now available free to all Smith students, faculty, and staff. For more information, click here.

Quarantine Alert: Many people are adding the wrong kinds of entries to their 'Blocked Senders' list in MessageScreen, inadvertently blocking messages they really want to receive while slowing down the system with unneeded entries. To learn how to avoid this problem, click here.

Because of on-going virus activity, all email messages with a ZIP or encrypted file attached are being held for user deletion or approval. Users receive the original message minus the attachment, with an alert and a link to the "parked" file. Click on the link to enter the parking area, then view, save, or delete the file. Unless the attached file is expected and from a legitimate sender, please DELETE it. Note that viewing the file is NOT safe because it is the same as opening it.

The Center for Media Production (CMP) is an Educational Technology Services facility dedicated to the teaching and learning of video production. Located in the lower level of the Alumnae Gym, the CMP provides state-of-the-art video labs, studios, equipment, and software to the Smith community. For more information, click here.

To check your MessageScreen quarantine and release any incoming email messages that don't belong there, go to: https://mscreen3.smith.edu/user. For instructions, click here.

If annoying spam gets past MessageScreen and into your GroupWise mailbox, please forward it to spam@smith.edu using the 'forward as attachment' option. Thanks for helping us improve MessageScreen's filtering rules!

 The following ITS facilities are open Monday through Friday as listed:
User Support Center: Stoddard 23, x4487, 7:45 AM - 5:00 PM
Computer Store: Stoddard 22, x3027, 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Student Telephone Services: Stoddard 22, x2082, 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM
OneCard Office: Stoddard 22, x3082, 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM

 Do you need to reserve equipment for an electronic classroom presentation? Click on the new Classroom Support link below.